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Ep. 188 - Mariountain Dew, with John Linneman

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Questions this week:

  1. From Brandon Sheffield: How would you run a cafe-arcade hybrid, and what would you call it? (03:10)
  2. How would video games be different if Microsoft bought Nintendo twenty years ago? (10:33)
  3. What factors decide whether a video game should be first person view or third person view? (15:02)
  4. What historical video game hardware breakthroughs are bigger deals than people realize? (20:26)
  5. What scenes do you hope to see in the new restored version of the Super Mario Bros. Movie? (25:29)
  6. What video games suffer the most from being played on unintended hardware? (30:37)
  7. Dirtbag Devils Blush asks: Who is your favorite developer of games you aren’t interested in playing? (39:33)
  8. As a player, when can you feel the absence of a cut feature the most? (43:21)
  9. How do you make a cool video game desert? (48:01)
  10. Who is the Guy Fieri of video games? (53:02)

    11. LIGHTNING ROUND: Product Placement (58:47)

    Discuss this episode among generally polite and universally cool people in the forums!

    A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

    • Misophonia
    • Ys: Origins
    • Thief: The Dark Project
    • Project Milo
    • insaneintherain
    • Microsoft Surface coffee table
    • uWink
    • SPARTAN-458
    • Jiu Jitsu (2020)
    • Breakdown
    • Tom Petty - Breakdown (Live 1985)
    • En Vogue - My Lovin’ (Never Gonna Get It)
    • Nvidia GeForce 3
    • What Are Vertex And Pixel Shaders?
    • Bump Mapping
    • U.S. Games, a subsidiary of Quaker Oats
    • NEMO
    • Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankle Cut
    • The Thief and the Cobler: Recobbled Cut
    • Video Game History Hour Ep. 23 - Working on Donkey Kong Country and Dinosaur Planet with Kev Bayliss & David Wise
    • Warlock
    • Warlock’s transparent logo screen
    • Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
    • Eternal Champions
    • VectorMan
    • The Adventures of Batman & Robin dithered and undithered
    • EVE Online
    • Jeff Minter
    • Will Wright
    • Polyphony Digital
    • Final Fantasy XV Dragoon Lady
    • Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
    • Dark Sector
    • Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
    • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
    • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
    • Phantom Dust
    • Planet Earth II
    • Tom Brady
    • Guy Fieri
    • Cliff Bleszinski
    • Tingle
    • Daxter
    • Sobble
    • Peter Molyneux
    • Tomonobu Itagaki
    • Hideki Kamiya

      Recommendations:

      Frank: Video Game History Foundation “Blind Box” Vintage Video Game Magazines

      Brandon: Enjoy the media you’ve collected over the years, The Brat - Attitudes EP

      John: DF Retro, Retrotink 5X

      Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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